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“No, I didn’t drive tractors around or dig up too many potatoes but when you have a family business - especially a farming business - of course you are all involved in some way but although I worked on the farm when I was younger, I didn’t see it as my future. How wrong could I be?!”
DEVON COVE POTATO VODKA
for over 50 years on their family farm overlooking Hope Cove. Such is their reputation, Lidstone potatoes are the preferred choice of celebrated chefs, featuring by name on the menus of many high quality restaurants and hotels, locally and further afield. They are most definitely not your humble tubers! Leanne Carr, the driving
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force behind Devon Cove Vodka, explained … “I forged a successful career in Marketing and Communications, heading up the Marketing team for a major company, but it was always my dream to create my own product.
he Lidstone family are renowned for growing quality Devon potatoes in the Atlantic sea air
One day, after many discussions around the dinner table about the different ways you can cook and enjoy potatoes, it was suggested I join the family business to take things a step further. My response – only if I can make potato vodka!” And thus was Devon Cove Vodka
born…
Juggling being mother to two small boys; wife to talented local singer/songwriter Ben, and her freelance marketing consultancy, Leanne spent 18 months acquiring the necessary knowledge. “At Barnaby’s Brewhouse Ltd I learnt how to cook and ferment the potatoes to create the all-important mash in a process similar to brewing, and then the Devon Distillery team taught me the intricacies of small batch distillation. I am so grateful to both for their support and sharing their expertise.”
The very first batch of copper
pot, single distilled Cove Vodka handcrafted in an artisan distillery, made from King Edward potatoes lovingly grown in the rich soil of fields overlooking Hope Cove, South Milton Sands and the iconic Burgh Island and harvested in September 2018, was ready to launch in autumn 2019. Made only from the finest
ingredients to ensure its smooth, luxurious taste - those incomparable King Edward potatoes, Devon spring water combined with a little yeast and enzymes added during fermentation – It’s as pure, clean and wholesome as a vodka can be. And then, just a few months
later, the world as we know it stopped … “The calendar for our first year after launch was packed with food festivals and fairs, county and local shows, food and
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